Human-powered spacecraft is a very short game as you can see it from its price, however its not a copy paste same asset crap what you see on the same priced games.

Its a short story clicker where you, as passanger of a spacecraft, was awaken by the computer and need produce energy. Yes, it need to be done manually:-)

This means that this is a clicker game, you need create energy while cycling on a bike (clicking it). From the produced energies you can upgrade your spaceship and so create idle energy (hurray, idle energy without clicks:-D)

Your goal is to restore the spaceship to be fully funcionable again, while flying through asteriods and fighting against space octopusses so you can get back to your cyrosleep and await the arrival of your spaceship and the promising life of a pioneer.

The game takes only ~1h long but for this price, especially during sale i believe its a well spent 0,4eur:D (or bit less if you got it from a bundle)

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The completion of the game takes about 1 hour and you should get all achievements just by completing the game. Its not hard to complete, only "harder" part is when you need get to zero energy at the end because it is a bit tricky.

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This is a small but enjoyable clicker game. Although it doesn't bring much new to the clicker genre to make it stand out from others in the pool, it is a very stable game. I didn't run into any bugs or issues while playing. It took around an hour to beat and can go faster if you play it more consistently than I did; I relied on idle play a bit. Once you complete it there is not much replay value.

Where this game excels is it's cute art style and fun concept. Powering a ship with a pedal bike is a pretty neat idea. The gameplay is simple enough for anyone to pick up. All the upgrades can be reminded what they do by hovering over them. The only issue I really ran into gameplay understanding wise, was the last bit I clicked through the information to quickly to figure out what I was doing; but I figured it out soon enough.

That being said this isn't a groundbreaking story. It's written well and has gone through some translation fixes since release so that's good. It's just not really the main cookie point of this game. The music is also something that falls a bit short in my opinion. I enjoyed it at first but anytime you listen to a shorter looped song in a game that may last you an hour, you start to grow tired of it quickly. The only other thought I had while playing this game was about the screen pan. I didn't think it was really necessary. You can see all the things on screen so panning the screen purposefully or sometimes accidentally is a bit pointless.

+Nice pixel art
+Fun concept
+Easy to understand
+Cheap

~Tedious music
~Panning screen is kind of pointless

-Short with little to no replay value

Although this is short and may not offer much new; it is a fantastic indie clicker. If you enjoy clickers go ahead and pick it up since it's pretty cheap. It may be an hour or less of your time, but there isn't anything that makes it a waste of time.

Originally posted by Crimson-Albedo:

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I pay 0.5$ for playing 1h30.
+ graphics
+ musics
+ really cool idea

I was hoping that was more long like an infinite clicker game but it's Okay. I really liked it.
Thonx

Not your average <1€/$ clicker game here just for its achievements.. =P
Well, one hour or two are definitely enough to get them all. And with ease, trust me.
All the achievements are in fact incremental and linked to your progression in the story, so basically everything isn't missable apart from the least achieved one - basically, you'll have just to "sync" the cat and rat icon on the lower left part of the screen, switching between rest (red) and work (green) - synchronizing the Schrödinger's cat and mouse or whatever they are.
On to the real game, you'll have as I said to -click- to make things go. You'll literally have to power a spaceship with your human energies, as the title.. spoilers.
From the energy you'll produce by clicking, you'll be able to buy upgrades and obviously earn the basic increments obtainable through idling.
The game is made of stages, with different goals everything based on the usual clicker mechanics, which will ask you to make money, buy upgrades and go on. Of course the game has no replayability value, but it costs really some cents so..
It's worth it. The pixel art is nice, the music is nice too. It's funny and requiring so little time to be completed, it never gets boring. You'll be powering your spaceship by literally clicking on a bike and luckily as I'm writing I found no mistakes or issues with the whole story (it seems that previous versions of this game have had translation issues, I think the developer is Russian if I'm not wrong).
For what it offers, it's nice to me. Indie at its best, funny, quite "new" even if the mechanics and such of course offer a classic pixel clicker game. If you like these casual games, this isn't a bad choice if you want to kill some time.
The story works well, I wasn't really expecting anything more and it's what I got. If you're into these games, this one is suggested in my opinion.

Info Game:
This is a very short clicker, but for those who like clickers, it has an interesting story and decent gameplay. You are a human in a spaceship which lost the group and to get back to them you'll have to use your own energy on a bicycle. You'll unlock more abilities during the game. I enjoyed this clicker a lot because of the story.

Info achievements:
You can complete this game in 0,5h-1h. I think it has two missable achievements: fully upgrading your ship, this should get a little of your focus if you want to 100% this game because it is much easier to do this further into the gameplay. The other one is that you want the mouse and cat robot to move synchrome, this can be unlocked within the first 5 minutes of the game. So it's not so bad if you miss this one.

Pros & Cons:
+ Good story
+ Not a long clicker game

Very short but surprisingly fun clicker game, something a lot of clicker/incremental games forget, to be fun instead of a math class for crunching numbers. Here you are taken off cryostasis only to become the guinea pig of an AI with HAL-9000 complex. And seeing how things are unfolding these days, this game now feels more current than ever.

Either way, cooperate with the AI to get the ♥♥♥♥ back up and running and then return to your fleet and find a planet to colonize. There will be clicks, loads of clicks! Good luck!

Not much in the technical front, the game ran flawlessly and has the option to play full screen or windowed. Windowed allows you to resize the window which in turn will stretch the pixels but it's serviceable and definitely helps if you have multiple screens. Not much else too say because for this price you just can't go wrong, especially for those who are busy and want pain-free goals/achievements along the way.

Recommended!

I'm honestly really not usually a fan of clicker games. I've wasted so much time trying to kill time on my phone with clicker and other idle games that it's really hard to come up with good reasons to get new ones; especially ones you have to pay for. While browsing through Steam, I came across this little game on sale and thought I'd go ahead and give it a try because I really liked the art-style and it looked like something a little bit different than what I had experienced before.

There are multiple different "levels" in this game where more and more upgrade options are unlocked at each stage with a different "goal" of progressing to the next stage. It isn't really anything huge to talk about; click, make money, upgrade, click, make money, purchase whatever the game wants you to purchase to start the next stage.

Gameplay: As you may expect from a clicker game... you click and upgrade.

Sound: The music and sound design is very nice, I don't have any complaints about it at all. Right from the get-go I was sucked in by the great music rather than being driven away by annoying sounds and awful music.

Art: I like pixel art as a graphic style. I imagine pixel art must take quite a bit of time to design and draw and I think it has a lot of character that's simple, yet pleasing.

Replayability: You can't. Really... once you've beaten the game once (which took maybe an hour of gameplay at most), I don't know why anybody would want to subject themselves to that sort of pain and tedium again. It was fun to play once, but I have absolutely no desire to do so again.

SCORE: I really wanted to give this game 5/5 because I did find it more enjoyable than all the other FREE clicker games out there, but unfortunately it was too short for me to be happy with the end result. 8 / 10 will be my final score for Human-Powered Spacecraft.

A short, charming and funny clicker game about space colonization. Or a fever dream of a modern Leonardo Da Vinci.

A well realized, small clicker game, done almost perfectly. It's about an hour long, depending how fast of a clicker you are or if you use outside "black market" automation helpers. Just don't tell anyone. It features several upgrades, including in-game automation ones for less carpal tunnel syndromes, very nice pixel graphics, somewhat less nice music on a loop and even a nice story with some less nice english translation. And a cat.

As a hapless colonist, stuck on a stranded spaceship, you're tasked by the ship's chirpy and over optimistic computer of pedalling yourself out of a jam. By using a bicycle rigged to produce power, a dynamo. Prepare yourself for a joy ride, potato peeling, distilling antimatter, overcharging energy sucking octopuses, synchronizing robots and other assorted space dramas in the line of duty of getting back to the fleet you lost. And maybe not dying. And perhaps colonizing a planet. All that in the space of less than an hour. Talk about time dilation.

It costs less than an espresso (and will buy Shiv 1/3 of one, approximately), will keep you entertained for longer and give you a nice, warm, fuzzy feeling when you complete it.

Take a peek inside the newly opened Cabinet of Curiosities if you like to walk off the beaten path and only sometimes return to the main roads. You might find something worth exploring. And if you do, thank you for the visit.

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A good game but fairly quick to beat (Took me roughly 30 or so minutes to complete the entire game), I would say the game needs more content or a sequel that fixes the issues with it (being the minimal amount of content). Although this game is great, if you look at Cookie Clicker or Realm Grinder for example you will see games with a similiar concept with significantly more content. I would have loved if this game were endless like Cookie Clicker or Realm Grinder (with things to upgrade; something I wanted was to expand the ship further), but even then this is a nice and quirky clicker game with fun dialogue. Something I'd suggest for a sequel is more of the same but with needing to Eat and Drink adding more things to manage so theres more upgrade avenues, the ability to expand the ship and so on.

40 minutes of clicking and decent pixel art, half a dollar well spent if you're into these things.